Tilta Z-CAM E2 cage

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33044427423.html?storeId=2071069&spm=2114.12010615.8148356.2.6e07aefafss4Bo

Remember to save a little - https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/22175/aliexpress-mid-year-sale#Item_23

Updated Product page with E2 Flagship series and E2 Series, E2, E2c, E2g

http://www.z-cam.com/zcame2/?fbclid=IwAR11PGQ20LEUj4JejwCHAgjnCNgcULjsieKvlFhkJrceH82CerpSFndWUIQ

Commercial shot by Stephen Lin for OPPO ( smartphone co.) on Z CAM E2 and E2G, Stills shot on Oppo Reno 10 smartphone.

E2 with VAZEN 40mm T2 1.8x Anamorphic MFT

Link to Test Footage with VAZEN 40mm T2 on GH5

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCph2lfB4T8saCHrtRNeSDTw

A few interesting new features in the 0.86 release:

• 4K @ 160fps (2.4:1 aspect ratio)
• 4K DCI @ 150fps (2.4:1 aspect ratio)
• HLG support
• 1920x1080 @ 240fps in H.265 10-bit

Full release notes: http://www.z-cam.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Z-CAM-E2-0.86-Firmware.pdf

Blackmagic does have an app for their cameras: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blackmagic-camera-control/id1239292847

It works with the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, Ursa Mini Pro, and Ursa Broadcast.

@eatstoomuchjam and @Vitaliy_Kiselev, it's very interesting to watch this holy war, but it's better to understand each other. Sorry, I'm not very good at English (I'm Russian). Well, just want to clarify something.

First of all, I don't know any of you, so I can and will speak only in the abstract and apart from your personalities. I'm interested in the subject area of the discussion only.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev, you said "Z-CAM management is afraid about proper path" - what path do you mean? Appealing to the manager's past experience makes sense, but does not prove anything, let's be honest.

@eatstoomuchjam, I think, that there is no reason for Black Magic to make a mobile app. How do you want to use this app with BM cameras? Z-Cam E1 form-factor, for example, dictates the need for wireless control - imagine the situation, where E1 lays, for example, in a microwave oven. How can you start/stop recording without wireless control? :D

@eatstoomuchjam

Here we go again. I am not asking you to respond to anything, it is exactly you who started from direct personal attacks.

I wrote things not about experience, but about why people do things they do. And first thing management system is doing is trying to keep stability and current course to save or improve their position.

@eatstoomuchjam

We talk about different multi camera markets.

Z-CAM design came from people who know a lot about multi camera work from VR cameras perspective mostly, and also from perspective of virtual camera solutions (multiple cameras and later using computation to make virtual camera footage), hence all the SDK they have and such. I can also count some industrial camera usage (Z-CAM had some talks about shipping to such areas, but I do not know if it had been any success yet).

Also please stop adding your thoughts and telling that it is mine. Proper smartphone apps are important, but much more important is understanding how consumer related camera must look like now, how it must behave. How important are software features, remote control, easy consumer level work with many cameras.

Z-CAM management is afraid about proper path, as they are afraid about changes in the company and possible changes in management that will follow. Change of direction could add managers who can manage large software teams and work with feedback outside closed facebook group. I think some of their actions are unconscious.

I know that is going inside some Japanese companies and it is similar thing. Old management is afraid, want to stick to things where they are good, where it is safe. yes, it is worse and worse, but at least managers keep their positions. This is thing they are fighting for. This tensions will release in fall of few Japanese giants soon and whole industry will turn. Will be lot of pain and change of 80% of management.

@jleo

Yep, this is that this form factor is made for.

Most funny is that our most heated debates with Z-Cam had been exactly as they DID NOT want to aim multi camera market. And DO NOT want to spend neccessary resources on their apps.

Oh yeah - those guys put some pictures in the group. Their underwater housing looks crazy impressive!

@kurth Jason has already said that 95% of the code is shared between the E2 series cameras already. The camera runs Linux. A number of low-level things (wifi/ethernet/etc) are handled by the OS. The camera-specific stuff is handled by an executable. I haven't gone in and looked in a while, but from what I remember, the startup script for that executable already tells it that it's using an IMX299 processor - so presumably it was built from the start to be flexible about which sensor it is talking to. I am a software guy and I can say that if software is properly designed, there's no reason that it can't be modular.

Think about what the camera does - at a high level, it reads data from a sensor, debayers it, and applies a color correction matrix (I get that there's a bit more that's going on, but that's the general gist). That's sensor-specific. Which other part of a camera's software would need to be changed to work with a different sensor?

"Cameras aren't plug-n-play" is a silly statement. At some point, computers weren't plug and play. Now they are. Now cameras are also computers, but they can't also be made flexible?